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[zmook.livejournal.com]

So, my visitor parking pass card says on it, "Visitor District B". I assume that indicates some kind of boundary where the permit is allowed to be used -- does anyone know where I can find a map of what that means? I've tried http://www.somervillema.gov/section.cfm?org=traffic&page=138, but either I'm blind or there's no love.

(If there is no map, then does anybody know how far away a visitor is allowed to park? They scrawled my address on the permit, too.)

Question the second: Can anybody point me to an online map that actually shows all the MBTA bus routes? I'd expected to find something like that at mbta.com, but seemingly no love there, either.

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[ron_newman]

Can't help you with the parking, but the MBTA bus map is under "System Map" in the "Schedules and Maps" menu on mbta.com . It's divided into a bunch of PDF rectangles.

[chenoameg.livejournal.com]

There is no parking map. The Districts on the visitor passes just dictate when the passes expire.

Visitors can only park on your street or cross street. And not too far from your house. That's why your address is on there. (I cannot recall who told me this information, possible LJ, but it agrees with where my visitors have gotten tickets.)

http://web.mit.edu/boojum/www/Map/ works for a bus map, but is slow to load and is not being updated.

On www.mbta.com you can enter an address and look for "service nearby". The route planner usually works pretty well, too.

This map - http://www.town.brookline.ma.us/gis/maplib/bus-t.pdf - shows the bus routes through Brookline.

[ron_newman]

Also, the individual bus schedule maps, both printed and online, show all the bus routes in a large area around that particular route. For instance, the #87 map has all of Somerville on it.

[grapefruiteater.livejournal.com]

Wait, I was pretty sure you could get ticketed for using an out-of-district pass. I think this happened to someone in my household. We are at the boundary of several different districts.

[mrpet.livejournal.com]

I seem to remember that getting tossed out since there is no official map (that us mere mortals have access to) of where the district boundaries are. I'm in 3 (Davis Sq) and have never gotten a ticket for parking anywhere in Somerville.

[grapefruiteater.livejournal.com]

Right, I was talking about the visitor card, not the resident permit. I'm not sure how strictly it's enforced, but I'm pretty sure I've heard of people getting ticketed for out-of-zone use of a visitor card. Because I live in C near the apparent borders with B and F (I'm pretty sure), it's something I'm a little wary of.

[ceo]

To clarify, a visitor pass can only be used in the immediate vicinity of the address written on it. A resident parking sticker is good anywhere in Somerville.

[marphod.livejournal.com]

Cambridge visitor permits have zones on them. And maps on the back of the passes that correspond to their zone.